Exhibition

Anselm Kiefer. Finnegans Wake

7 Jun 2023 – 20 Aug 2023

Regular hours

Wednesday
10:00 – 18:00
Thursday
10:00 – 18:00
Friday
10:00 – 18:00
Saturday
10:00 – 18:00
Sunday
12:00 – 18:00
Tuesday
10:00 – 18:00

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White Cube Bermondsey

London, United Kingdom

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'Anselm Kiefer – Finnegans Wake’ is a passage in which his work rushes past us into the future – where we can say, with Joyce, ‘Here comes everybody’. — BRIAN DILLON, 2023

About

In ‘Anselm Kiefer – Finnegans Wake’, the artist’s new paintings, sculptures and installations respond to (that is, struggle with and transform) James Joyce’s novel of 1939. Kiefer first read the Irish writer as a young man, devouring Ulysses (1922) and embarking on a slow and spiralling relationship with the later, more exacting, Finnegans Wake. It is a book of circles and echoes, more or less overt or secret; its riverine movement begins in the midst of things, and turns back on itself on the final page. The novel seems to contain all words, all thoughts, all histories. Likewise, the works Kiefer assembles here, bristle with motifs and materials seen elsewhere in his art. There are fields of rubble and wire, skeletal sunflowers, the DNA helix, the ouroboros snake that eats its own tail. Concrete, copper, glass vitrines, unreadable books made of lead, Joycean inscriptions everywhere. It is as if language itself has become a material, a sculptural medium.

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Anselm Kiefer

Anselm Kiefer

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